TICKET TO TRANSFORMATION
Hardships
Printing and Tickets
Standardization of Time
Price
New Leisure Activities
Effects of faster transportation
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reading
Printing allowed for a wide variety of reading materials to be available.
wide variety
available
Books, periodicals, and daily papers began to play a major role in individual leisure activities. This leisure activity could often be seen on the trains to and from work.
books
periodicals
Read by different members of the family, the periodical became part of leisure activity in the home. Periodicals included images and appealed to more specialized audiences.
papers
covered by
magazines
and press
intermixed
social classes
Theater was a place where many social classes and ages could come together and enjoy the same leisure activity. Clerks, shop workers of both sexes and middle-class families could mingle at the theater.
variety
Music Hall,which traditionally had been for working-class entertainment, transformed into "Variety."
theater boom
1890
The theater boom of the 1890's included new forms such as musical Comedy, and the refinment of older forms such as Music Hall.
theater and art
The standardization of time developed times for work and times for leisure. Theater and art became frequent leisure activities.
racing
Attending races became a frequent leisure activity for many people.
sports
Railways also allowed for professional sports to become possible. Trains allowed for faster and cheaper travel for teams and fans.
professional
football
The faster and cheaper transportation of trains made traveling to professional football games possible for fans and teams
new leisure
activites
The new punctual lifestyle of city dwellers and the easy access into the city brought about new social customs and leisure activities. Reading, sports, racing, shopping, traveling, theater and art became recreational activities.
exploration
across the
country
(seaside)
A cheaper way to travel encouraged people to explore far away places like the seaside. These places were too difficult and too expensive to reach before railways.
shopping
Shopping also allowed for department stores to thrive in the cities while stores far from railroads declined.
department
stores thrive
Department stores originated in the late nineteenth century as a way to market goods to a new type of urban middle-class consumer.
markets far from
railroads decline
As deparment stores became more popular, markets far from railroads loss business.
Attending races became a frequent leisure activity for many people.
The faster and cheaper transportation of trains made traveling to professional football games possible for fans and teams
Department stores originated in the late nineteenth century as a way to market goods to a new type of urban middle-class consumer.